Feb 29, 2024 - Sale 2660

Sale 2660 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

ALOIS CARIGIET (1902-1985)

AROSA. 1931.


39¾x25 inches, 101x63½ cm. Orell-Füssli, Zurich.
Condition A- / B+: slight foxing and minor creases in image; horizontal fold in upper image. Framed.

Carigiet was a graphic designer, painter, children's book illustrator and costume and set designer for the theater. This "1931 poster by Alois Carigiet shows summer skiing at Arosa - one of the three earliest Graubünden resorts" (Art of Skiing p. 87). Art of Skiing p. 87, Swiss Winter Sports 29 (var).